NEW ZEALAND.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2085, 17 November 1885, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND.

[bt TKUT.mr-it.— rm-ss associvtion.l CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Tin. late Mr J. Wigger, of Addington, who home mouths ago endowed the Agricultural and Pastoral Association with rive acres of land, has left the bulk of his estates, sworn under £17,000, to the Old Men's Home, the Lyttelton Orphanage, and Female Refuse. His w idow yets an annuity, and t_3oo has been left in Icjmor-s to his doctor, seivaiitn, some fnen !•», and various benev olent institutions of Christchurch. At Captain Cotton's auction of thoroughbied\ the principal sales were: — Minerva, I. Mirtin, I_s guineas ; The Poet, same, ?•") guineas ; Tres Sec, H. Lunn, 100 guineas : Kavemciiiig, J. llutheiford, i 130 guineas ; Mamooom, W. G. Rutherford, 100 guineas ; Black and Rose, Green, *2(tO guineas ; M.iligner, same, ,?00 guineas. The only lot sold at Middle I\uk was a brown colt by Apremont — Maria Theicsa, Hornesey, for 300 guineas. WANGANUI, Monday. Mr Y. M Spnrdle was re-elected mayor to day, without opposition. MASTERTON, Monday. Iliaka Temoe, a native cluer, died today, lie wns over 80 years of age, and had been a missionary over forty-two years.

ACTTAU-Y OVKRIIEAKD AT A tUNNtR taiim". in t Ihli. \n».— ' The cause of throuble in our unhappy land is that the whole connthry is full of absentees— d'ye understand? We shall have no lelase till we're rid ay the w hole bunch ay them ; and as I undursht.uid ye're an American, and a fiiend ay the ould countlny, I want to tell you, sorr that wan halt the lies they tell about aie not thrue.' — Boston Commercial Bulletin.